On board the 19 hour Qantas flight from New York to Sydney

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It's the first time a commercial airline has flown directly between the two cities - a longer journey in duration and distance than any airline route flown in the world today. | pwhatch

in the aisle of a mostly empty jet plane as it hurtles past Las Vegas 10,972 metres up in the night’s sky.

It's the first time a commercial airline has flown directly between the two cities - a longer journey in duration and distance than any airline route flown in the world today. Alan Joyce, Qantas Group CEO with the flight deck crew and cabin crew at Sydney Airport celebrating after flying 19 hours and 16 minutes from New York to SydneyThe 50-year-old travels overseas often for his work for an environment services firm and is one of six passengers who were due to fly home from New York this weekend but agreed to be human guinea pigs on Qantas’ test flights instead.

None of this works for me, and by three hours in my eyelids are heavy and I doubt if I can make the distance. But an in-flight exercise session in the rear galley led by Professor Marie Carroll, from Charles Perkins Centre, revives me. “We’ll be asking people what they think of it, what worked what didn’t work – and people are being measured to so we’ll see are there real benefits.”

 

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pwhatch I would have thought it practical to have people in each section to test the results .Business class seats are a definite advantage .

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